Vegetables† (servings/day) | Quintiles of vegetable consumption and fruit consumption | |||||
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<1.3 | 1.3–1.9 | 2.0–2.6 | 2.7–3.7 | >3.7 | p Value for trend | |
Daily servings (median) | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 4.6 | – |
Cases/person-years | 90/174 651 | 63/174 708 | 68/180 203 | 57/180 241 | 42/181 333 | – |
Model 1 RR* (95% CI) | 1.00 (reference) | 0.75 (0.54 to 1.04) | 0.83 (0.60 to 1.15) | 0.72 (0.51 to 1.03) | 0.55 (0.37 to 0.82) | 0.01 |
Model 2 RR† (95% CI) | 1.00 (reference) | 0.78 (0.56 to 1.08) | 0.86 (0.62 to 1.20) | 0.74 (0.52 to 1.06) | 0.56 (0.37 to 0.84) | 0.01 |
Fruit‡ (servings/day) | <0.7 | 0.7–1.2 | 1.3–1.7 | 1.8–2.6 | >2.6 | p Value for trend |
Daily servings (median) | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 3.3 | – |
Cases/person-years | 71/179 673 | 69/175 550 | 65/179 025 | 60/177 376 | 55/179 512 | – |
Model 1 RR* (95% CI) | 1.00 (reference) | 1.09 (0.78 to 1.53) | 1.09 (0.77 to 1.54) | 1.08 (0.75 to 1.56) | 1.11 (0.75 to 1.63) | 0.67 |
Model 2 RR† (95% CI) | 1.00 (reference) | 1.14 (0.82 to 1.60) | 1.16 (0.81 to 1.65) | 1.16 (0.81 to 1.68) | 1.20 (0.81 to 1.78) | 0.43 |
↵* Adjusted for age (years) (≤50, 51–60, 61–70, >70) and sex. Vegetables and fruit were included simultaneously in the model.
↵† As in model 1 and additionally adjusted for educational level (less than high school, high school, university), smoking status (current, former, never), monthly alcohol consumption (grams) (≤100, 101–200, 201–400, >400), body mass index (kg/m2) (quartiles), history of diabetes (yes/no) and energy intake (kcal/day) (quartiles).